A New Family Member

I am sorry I have not blogged much.  I have been so distracted with wedding and baby showers lately.   However the craziness is all worth it, because this week our newest family member arrived.

Little Haddie

I think she is the most beautiful baby around.  However, I am a bit biased being the proud grandma.  

I put together these candy bars for my first graders.  I colored in the word she in pink and tied pink bows on them.  

The boys in my classroom room where a bit disappointed they wanted boy candy bars.  It took a bit to explained that they were getting the candy because my family welcomed a new baby girl.  

It still did not matter several boys were upset at the end of the day that they had to have girl candy.  

Hopefully after my second son's wedding in a couple weeks everything will settle down.  

This Week in First Grade April 21

In first grade this week we will begin our new science unit about weather.  There are several lessons in the book that I will be doing however in addition to the text book I found a wonderful unit by Kristen Smith.  There are some amazing ideas in the unit that I can not wait to share with my class.

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I found a poem about a rainbow this week.

I have a homework page for the poem as well.    If you would like a copy of the poem and homework page Click Here.

The week before vacation, we made Adjective Rainbows.  It was an idea I saw on Pinterest.  It went perfect with our Religion lesson on The Golden Rule.  How should we treat others.......the same way we want others to treat us.  We brainstormed a list of positive adjectives....

Then the children thought of kind adjectives to describe their friends.   We picked names out of a basket to fill out the strips.  The group of children met together and discussed what were the best adjectives to put on the rainbow and surprise the special person on the cloud.   It was such a treat to find out what kind things the other children thought about each student.  It was the highlight of the day.  The first graders loved this activity.  This is something I will do again next year.

I found three great books to read about clouds to the students as well.

 

I am looking forward to a fun week back with my students.
Sue

Flat Stanley

This week my class is reading Flat Stanley.  Flat Stanley is a tradition in first grade at the school that I teach at.  So I am making an effort to make this work with my first graders as well.    I found this poem about children around the world and I thought it would be perfect for this week.

I know Flat Stanley travels to California but this poem is so cute.  Here is a lucky bonus for me as well,  we are learning about recycling in science.  

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What a great way to tie everything all together.